Effects of a Floor on the Entrainment Flow Field Induced by a Pool Fire.
Effects of a Floor on the Entrainment Flow Field Induced
by a Pool Fire.
(143 K)
Zhou, X. C.; Gore, J. P.
NISTIR 5499; September 1994.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 81-82 pp, 1994.
Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB95-104964
Keywords:
fire research; pool fires; entrainment; flow fields;
floors; laser doppler velocimetry
Abstract:
The entrainment flow field of a 7.1 cm toluene fire with
a 51 cm floor has been recently studied using a laser
Doppler velocimeter (LDV) and a particle imaging
velocimeter (PIV). The results of these studies showed
that the fire induced flow field in the presence of a
floor is highly transient with root mean square (RMS)
entrainment velocities having the same order of
magnitude as the mean entrainment velocities.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899